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If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes to do only when he is not at work.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
Continued experiment with dog today.
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.
The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
